In the suburbs outside Changle County, night has fallen.

In a tent that leaked on all sides, the scarred, hungry and tired cavalry was drawing their bows, and finally waiting for the food to be delivered; Yellowed brown rice and a few slices of dried kelp with salt flowers, but there was no coping soup; It was a world of difference from the hospitality he had received before, with wine, meat and women.

It's just that he has lost most of his subordinates and manpower, and has also lost the capital that makes these people extra respected and valued, and he has eaten the products of major defeats in front of them; The reality and ruthlessness of the leaders of the earth groups can be seen here;

But he no longer had the heart to deal with it, or to be disgusted and angry about it, but devoured it on the spot; Then he carefully tore open the bandaged silk belt, and dealt with his arrows against the dim light;

This is the last bit of remembrance he left for the tall thief who was covered with soot and brandished on both sides, and rushed up to the city without incident, even though he hit the other party's head, and finally ordered his men to besiege him.

At the beginning, it seemed that because of the limited height of the city wall, Zhao Yinggong, who took the initiative to jump off the city with a broken arrow shaft, did not die on the spot, but piled up a pile of meat and vegetables on the dead, and then in a drowsiness, he was taken back to the besieged camp by his heartfelt subordinates;

However, what made him even more angry and helpless was that not only did he not see the promised reception from the side of Zhao Ziri, the owner of the village, for a long time, or it was too late, but he was so busy that he retreated back after seeing the attack on the official army headquarters;

Even most of the leaders of the Tutuan Army frightened themselves into chaos for the reason that the enemy situation was unknown, and even sat back and watched the defeat step by step. In vain, they wasted the opportunity and breakthrough they desperately created to break the enemy.

When he came to his senses, he wanted to be angry and questioned, but he couldn't find supporters, but was disarmed and put under house arrest in disguise; In the words of the master of Zhao Zhai, it is for his sake in the future, and by the way, he sharpens his somewhat untimely temperament;

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but stop the movement in his hand, and sighed heavily with a hint of coldness. Could it be that he is still unlucky, and in the end, even this local tyrant in the countryside can be humiliated wantonly.

After this defeat, even his new subordinates, who had not been in the company for a long time, were already disheartened even if they were able to escape and return; He could even follow the sound of the night wind, and hear some faintly familiar voices not far away, drunk and complaining about it with his tongue, mixed with the name of his cavalry.

It was only when he regained the boredom and resentment in his chest that he easily fell asleep with a faint pain and clothes closed;

In this sleep, he dreamed of the long-lost terroir of his hometown, the towering mountains of Yanmen, the majestic narrow and ancient road of the military capital, the sour and thick vinegar of the old vinegar in the east of the river, and the thick waist pole and thick song of the boat lady on the bank of the river, rippling with the wind on the golden Bomai field.

Then suddenly the mountain collapsed, the ground cracked, and the golden wheat fields burned to ashes in an instant, and all good things were swallowed up by the blazing flames from the heavens. Suddenly he was sweating profusely and waking up from the sharp pain of struggling and writhing, and then found that he had used too much force and rolled off the straw mat, and even the wound was oozing blood again.

The smell of burnt and smoky air seemed to have been carried over from that dream, and he noticed the abnormal light outside the tent, the swaying figures, and the noisy shouts; Let him completely wake up from the last bit of obscurity.

Now he was indeed attacked by the enemy, and when he broke out of the tent, there was no one left to guard or stop him, and everywhere he saw and heard was a panicked figure; And around the camp, there seemed to be thieves shouting in all directions, as if the roar and movement of countless people and horses made the camp blow up on the spot and the flow of people running around and trampling on each other.

No matter how much he shouted and shouted, or how he snatched his weapons and cut them down head-on, it only allowed the flow of people who were eager to flee to pass by him.

In the end, Zhao Yinggong, who was covered in blood and exhausted, could only be helplessly and powerlessly wrapped in it, and rushed out in an unknown direction involuntarily.

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For Zhou Huai'an's righteous army, this is undoubtedly a great adventure and speculation.

At the cost of draining the last bit of combat strength and guards in the city, let the cavalry team that came to help and the direct team on horseback to make a joint position, and launched a night raid on those earthen regiments outside the city in return. Of course, this night attack was more of a bluff in a sense.

For they did not have many men in it, but they dragged the ground with branches behind their horses to make smoke, and with huge trumpets rolled in tin or thick paper in their hands, they rode incessantly outside these camps, shouting and shouting with all their might, in order to disturb and frighten more thieves from their sleep.

Then the real blow came from the darkness, and some people kept throwing it with a catapult of bamboo chips, one by one with special incendiary objects that choked people's fireworks, and it is said that the main ones were cloth and hemp balls soaked in horse urine and poisonous alkali, and the smell of too much could make the mouth and tongue paralyzed and sad to faint.

Therefore, it is like a spark that can start a prairie fire, although it can only fall on the edge of these local regiments, it is like a nest that immediately smokes a large number of panicked, unclothed scattered people; Then they knocked down and knocked over more of the tents, and even started a fire that spread and made the situation even more chaotic.

And Xiao Qi, a sweaty young man, was also among these people who were busy operating the catapult machine, and he finally understood why the monk camp officer insisted on letting them eat some strange things, and often woke them up from their sleep at night, and then ordered them to sit down for some strange things.

In a sense, these selected people have an unaffected eye at night; Or that this monk camp manager asked everyone to swallow some very strong, sun-dried fish offal and raw chicken and duck offal every once in a while, just for the needs of this situation.

At least if you eat too many of these fishy things, people will gradually become clear-eyed at night, and faintly see some details in the dark. In addition, some special signals and training in night conduct are effective means used to prevent others from attacking the camp at night.

After all, being able to fight at night in times of poor visibility is not a simple and easy thing to do; Especially in this cloudy weather when the moon is dusk and dull. Now, for the first time, this kind of initial results, which can be initially borne off in a short period of time, have finally fallen on their enemies.

It's just that from the few people left in the city, there are still too few people to use, so even Xiao Qi's errand followers have been sent out as lookouts for those operation teams with limited eyesight, while observing the changes in the enemy situation, while guiding and correcting the direction of the projection for them.

Then, with some surprise, he saw that the dozens of horsemen who were bluffing and dragging the smoke and dust outside the joint venture suddenly disappeared; Then in those chaotic layout of the Tutuan joint camp, there was an even more terrible and tragic roar and noise...